"The goal of this Project is to develop an experimental version of the javac compiler based upon a grammar written in ANTLR."

USF MBA/CS Team wins second place in International Venture Capital Investment Competition

posted by parrt on Tuesday, February 19, 10:05 AM
CS graduate student Jeremiah Porten and his MBA teammates have won 2nd place in the 2008 International Venture Capital Investment Competition. The USF team of 5 included MBA candidates Carin Smit, Cathy Legg Tanimura, Clarence Wong, and Michael Jimenez-Cruz, and Computer Science Graduate Student - Jeremiah Porten. USF MBA candidate Tomosue Den was the team's first alternate who prepared with the team and will lead next year's team. Faculty advisers: Mark Cannice and Larry Louie.

Entering grad student orientation Mon Jan 21 1pm HR235

posted by parrt on Tuesday, January 15, 09:52 AM
All entering graduate students must attend orientation Monday January 21st in the main classroom HR235. 1-3pm. We will discuss courses and help you get registered for Spring 2008 semester.

Mantra programming language released

posted by parrt on Tuesday, October 09, 05:59 PM
Mantra is a new programming language being defined by Terence Parr at the University of San Francisco. Mantra is a clear descendant of Java in terms of syntax, but more like Ruby and Python because Mantra is dynamically typed (though mantra has type annotations). Like Ruby, Mantra has real closure support and the closure-following-method-call syntax for passing closures to functions. If Mantra has anything new and interesting, it's POP: pipeline-oriented programming or pipe-oriented programming. The pipeline statement implicitly launches threads on the actors in the pipeline and hooks up their input and output streams. The pipeline statement is directly analogous to pipes and I/O redirection on UNIX commandline.